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Preventing infant deaths: The ABCs of safe baby sleep

  • Written by Richard Gunderman, Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
Preventing infant deaths: The ABCs of safe baby sleepBabies should sleep on their backs, as this one is doing. lsarapic/Shutterstock.com

Just last week, I read an X-ray study of an infant who died while sleeping with a parent. I am a pediatric radiologist, and in cases where an infant has died unexpectedly, we often obtain X-ray images to make sure that the infant does not have skeletal fractures or...

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